John Gerring Professor Office: PLS 300 Phone: 617.353.2756 E-mail: jgerring@bu.edu Education: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Areas of Specialization: Comparative Politics, Methodology, American Political History

John Gerring (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1993) is Professor of Political Science at Boston University, where he teaches courses on methodology and comparative politics. His books include Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework (Cambridge University Press, 2001; completely revised and expanded edition forthcoming in 2010), Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2007), A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Concepts and Method: Giovanni Sartori and His Legacy (Routledge, 2009), Global Justice: A Prioritarian Manifesto (in process), and Democracy and Development: A Historical Perspective (in process). He served as a fellow of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) and as a member of The National Academy of SciencesÕ Committee on the Evaluation of USAID Programs to Support the Development of Democracy. He currently serves as President of the American Political Science AssociationÕs Organized Section on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, and is the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation to collect historical data related to colonialism and long-term development.

Professor Gerring regularly teaches the following courses:
Political Analysis: A Primer (PO 502)
Democratic Governance (PO 521)

Global Justice (PO 523)
Political Analysis (PO 840)

Additional information:

Curriculum Vitae
Personal Web Site (including links to papers)

Advice on Essay Writing